BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8501@templemicah.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T180000 DTSTAMP:20250408T161842Z URL:https://www.templemicah.org/events/future-american-jews-and-israel/ SUMMARY:Panel #3: The Future of American Jews and Israel DESCRIPTION:As part of our year of celebration as we approach Rabbi Zemel ’s retirement on June 30\, 2025\, the Celebration Committee presents a t hree-part series of panels\,  Imagining the Jewish Future\, featuring ac complished rabbis\, thinkers\, and Jewish leaders from the United States\, Israel and Canada.\n\nPlease join us for the third and final part of the series\, "The Future of American Jews and Israel" featuring a discussion w ith Rabbi Jill Jacobs\, Rabbi Jason Rubenstein\, and Rabbi Hilly Haber. Th is panel will be moderated by Rabbi Stephanie Crawley.\n\nRegistration is NOT required to attend this event. We look forward to welcoming our guests to Temple Micah.\n\n\n\nFeatured Panelists\n[caption id="attachment_31520 " align="alignright" width="150"] Rabbi Jill Jacobs[/caption]\n\nRabbi Jil l Jacobs is the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. She i s the author of Where Justice Dwells: A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Jus tice in Your Jewish Community and There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition\, both published by Jewish Light s. She has published in The Washington Post\, Slate\, NBCNews.com\, JTA\, the Forward\, the Jerusalem Post\, and other publications\, as well as cha pters in more than a dozen edited volumes. She has appeared as a commenter on MSNBC\, CNN\, CodeSwitch\, and other media. She has been named three t imes to the Forward’s list of 50 influential American Jews and to Newswe ek’s list of the 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America. The New York Tim es featured her as one of "Six New Yorkers Who Made the City a Better\, Co oler\, Fairer Place in 2023."\n\nShe holds rabbinic ordination and an MA i n Talmud from the Jewish Theological Seminary\, where she was a Wexner Fel low\; an MS in Urban Affairs from Hunter College\, and a BA from Columbia University. She is also a graduate of the Mandel Institute Jerusalem Fello ws Program. She lives in New York with her husband\, Rabbi Guy Austrian\, and their two daughters.\n\n \;\n\n[caption id="attachment_31518" alig n="alignright" width="150"] Rabbi Jason Rubenstein[/caption]\n\nRabbi Jaso n Rubenstein joined Harvard Hillel as Executive Director on June 1\, 2024 after six years as the Howard M. Holtzman Jewish Chaplain at Yale. Jason ’s background is as diverse as Harvard’s Jewish community: a childhood at Temple Micah in Washington DC\, formative years studying at Yeshivat M a’ale Gilboa in northern Israel\, and rabbinic ordination from the Jewis h Theological Seminary. From 2010-2018\, Jason taught on the faculty of th e Hadar Institute.\n\nIn addition to rabbinic ordination\, Jason holds an AB in Social Studies from Harvard College magna cum laude and a Masters in Talmud from JTS. He is also the recipient of numerous awards including th e Wexner Graduate Fellowship and the Covenant Foundation’s 2015 Pomegran ate Prize for Emerging Educators.\n\nJason and Arielle are grateful to be raising their daughter and two sons in Brookline.\n\n \;\n\n[caption i d="attachment_31519" align="alignright" width="150"] Rabbi Hilly Haber[/ca ption]\n\nRabbi Hilly Haber is the Director of Social Justice Organizing a nd Education at Central Synagogue in New York City. Ordained at Hebrew Uni on College-Jewish Institute of Religion\, Rabbi Haber was a Wexner Graduat e Fellow and a Tisch Fellow at Temple Micah. She previously served as the Director of Urban Mitzvah Corps in New Brunswick\, New Jersey\, as an inte rn at Temple Beth Jacob in El Centro\, California\, and as an intern with the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). She is a contributor to the CCAR Press book\, “Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority: Our Jew ish Obligation to Social Justice.”\n\nRabbi Haber is currently pursuing her PhD at Union Theological Seminary. Prior to joining Central\, she was a student rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Westfield\, New Jersey. Rabbi Haber earned a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s i n theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. Rabbi Haber\, along wi th Rabbi Daniel Ross\, helped lead the Spartan Race team during their time at Hebrew Union College.\n\nOriginally from New York\, she lives in New J ersey with her wife and son. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.templemicah.org/wp-content/uploads/2 024/10/Panel-Three-The-Future-of-American-Jews-and-Israel-2.png CATEGORIES:Adult Education,Community Event,Featured,Guest Speakers,Israel,Wheelchair Accessible END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR